Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, will make his much-anticipated appearance before members of Congress starting Tuesday afternoon. In
two days of hearings, he will face tough questions on how and why the company failed to protect the delicate data of many millions of its users.

This is Mr. Zuckerberg’s first appearance before Congress and his performance will be critical to the company’s future. His responses about the
company’s ability to protect its users will be closely scrutinized by lawmakers and regulators as well as competitors, Facebook employees and the
billions of people who use the platform across the globe.

To help make the case that he should be taken seriously as a businessman and a statesman, Mr. Zuckerberg will be taking oath in a suit instead of his
trademark gray T-shirt and jeans.

This being ATS, I feel obligated to point out that when you see things like this happening, it might be prudent to ask what is really going on here,
rather than what they are telling us is going on.

IOW, perhaps this is theater and is designed explicitly for steering public opinion. And just maybe Zuckerberg is in on it? Nah! Couldn't be. One of
the richest (Arguably smartest?) men in the world is going to allow Congress to interrogate him in person instead of going through his attorneys.
Right? I mean, obviously, if someone filed a suit against Zuckerberg he'd show up in court in person without his lawyers and be ready to talk about
just any old thing.

originally posted by: Perfectenemy
I'm hoping for the giant pic with Z and the sealed up microphones followed up by the question why he did that. Yeah not gonna happen but you have to
admit it sounds awesome.

Unfortunately Z will weasel himelf out of this and pretend he values your privacy. [spoiler]He doesn't.[/spoiler] Regulate or kill Facebook. It's the
only way to be sure.

I think people should be free to choose whether or not they use Facebook and it is not your, or mine, place to decide what should or should not be
"killed".

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